Nothing Says America Like A Cowboy Lassoing A Steer On A Highway While Police Give Chase

“Whoa, that’s a lot of bull” is something that gets said on highways all over the world. Over the weekend in Michigan though highway goers could’ve been talking about Lester, a two-ton steer on the lam. Watching a cowboy save him from an untimely interaction with a car is one of the wildest farm animal videos we’ve seen in some time.

Evidently, Lester is a bit of an escape artist. The Associated Press says that, as of the filming of this video, he’d been on the run for about six weeks after escaping from a ranch. He was only at that ranch because he escaped from another animal rescue facility in Rose Township. So Lester is clearly adept at evading capture.

That brings us to the video itself which shows authorities and ranchers working from horseback, four-wheeler, and police car to find Lester. The crew is on the northbound side of I-75 in Holly or about 60 miles northwest of Detroit proper. About halfway through the footage Lester pops out of the woods, jukes a guy on a four-wheeler, and merges onto the highway itself.

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The MSP Second District Twitter account very clearly says that “Troopers shut down north and southbound lanes of I-75 for safety.” That might somehow be the case but the video seems to indicate otherwise as cars are moving along on both sides of the road. In fact, there’s a blue sedan that rolls by the bovine as it’s running from the man.

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An actual cowboy then gets up behind Lester and lassos him by the neck. The chase isn’t over though because the cow then makes the drastic choice to turn left and jump over the divider into oncoming traffic. While the video ends there we’re happy to report that Lester was stopped shortly thereafter and is safe and sound now.

“Eventually after much tom foolery, the critter was captured and removed from the freeway,” the state police wrote on Twitter. “Troopers reopened the freeway and things quickly got back to normal. The bovine was not charged and is back in the pasture with a story to tell all the other livestock.”